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I Am The Most Travelled Of All My Contemporaries; I Have Extended My Field Of Enquiry Wider Than Anybody Else, I Have Seen More Countries And Climes, And Have Heard More Speeches Of Learned Men. No One Has Surpassed Me In The Composition Of Lines, According To Demonstration, Not Even The Egyptian Knotters Of Ropes, Or Geometers.

Sweet Exists By Convention, Bitter By Convention, Color By Convention; But In Reality Atoms And The Void Alone Exist

My Enemy Is Not The Man Who Wrongs Me, But The Man Who Means To Wrong Me.

By Convention Sweet Is Sweet, By Convention Bitter Is Bitter, By Convention Hot Is Hot, By Convention Cold Is Cold, By Convention Color Is Color. But In Reality There Are Atoms And The Void. That Is, The Objects Of Sense Are Supposed To Be Real And It Is Customary To Regard Them As Such, But In Truth They Are Not. Only The Atoms And The Void Are Real.

Happiness Resides Not In Possessions, And Not In Gold, Happiness Dwells In The Soul.